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> you can’t have any guarantees about anything whatsoever?

On public networks, yes.

Of course in many cases andyou have to limit what edge cases you deal with unless you have infinite development time, but unexpectedly repeated UDP packets are definitely something that happens often enough to account for it if your protocol could be adversely affected by it.




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